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...Senators in 1929 chose him as their floor leader when Charles Curtis vacated that difficult job for the easier vice presidency. But he led only a nominal party majority which insurgent bolters repeatedly turned into a voting minority. Officially the President's spokesman in the Senate, he has eaten many a breakfast at the White House but rarely rises to defend Herbert Hoover from partisan attack. Privately criticized for failing to back up his chief, he was once reported to have snorted: ''How can you stand behind a man with St. Vitus's dance...
Some 15,000 workers and their families (totaling 35,000) were shipped by barge and camelback to the job site, have lived there in tents and eaten up most of the money. Lack of rationalization (coordination) permitted the Balkhazhstroy project to be launched on a schedule calling for the arrival of 300,000 tons of construction materials yearly?whereas the most that Lake Balkhazh's two tiny steamers and three barges have been able to carry is 10,000 tons for the year just ended...
Other Terpilici comrades said that 40 of the 89 lost cows had been found, the rest having doubtless been eaten or sold. Scathingly the weekly Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn cartooned a man with a lantern "searching for an honest cow" and asking of one startled, guilty-looking beast: "Pardon me, but aren't you one of Terpilici State Farm's cows...
When primitive tribes come upon hard days, their pets and beasts of burden go hungry too, are eaten up if the famine gets bad enough. Besides pets and beasts of burden, civilized men keep animals for the education and amusement of their children. In good times zoo animals pay for their keep with their offspring. But just now the zoo animal market is at a standstill. Many a city faces the problem of how. with humans starving in the streets, to find money to keep its zoo alive. Last week President Williams B. Cadwalader of the Philadelphia Zoological Society addressed...
Then, at the end of a day, or a week, depending on how a count of the number of meals per week a student has eaten is taken, these slips might be sent to his own house and counted there, as part of his regular meal slips...